Aaron 👻 | Playing P3R 🔫

Upcoming Mangaka, Screenplay Writer, & Light Novelist | Black Lives Matter | Ask About my Current Project: Kataclysm

[Aaron 👻 | Playing P3R 🔫 @Android808s]

Founder of the World Government (known as the Oligarchy), The Leader of the World, and the Bringer of Peace: Babylon || My central antagonist has finally come to life and it’s all thanks to @FullMetalJean y’all give her some love and tell her to SIGN her hard work next time!!

[MX @MAx16881]

重新发一遍！#jjba

[Aaron 👻 | Playing P3R 🔫 @Android808s]

Shut up nigga

[Final Form Wavy 🌊 @PostboyWavy]

Crying

[WALKER🪂 @maxl1am]

the guilt of being the son who loves his family but breathes easier when he's far away

[isaiah @tlop444]

remember when the netflix ceo said theaters were outdated…

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

First trailer for ‘I AM FRANKELDA’, the first-ever stop-motion film made in Mexico.

The film follows a writer who is taken to another realm to help write nightmares to keep monsters alive.

Releasing June 12 on Netflix.

[кєνín @notcee_fan]

DO NOT FREE HIS COUSIN

[bryson. @iambrysoncarter]

My favorite thing about Is God Is is there isn’t a single white person in the entire movie. Not even an extra!

[Renee @PettyLupone]

Almost startling how relevant this still is.

[PAZ✨ @PazqalEriq]

Things done out of love for the wrong person can never be something you shame the doer for.

She loved through words and actions, some of you are dead inside and can never understand what that is,

Yall should sit this one out.

[New York Post @nypost]

Bronx teachers launch free libraries inside bodegas to boost literacy rates https://t.co/bJTYQ9Ualu

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

The first trailer for ‘COYOTE VS ACME’ has been released.

In theaters on August 28.

[大麻戦士🌱(変顔管理) @ni3z9vLV5V88435]

大麻戦士のジョイント講座
この巻き方が1番簡単で綺麗に巻けるよ🤩

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The research behind this is wild. If you played Pokémon as a kid, you have a tiny region in your brain that exists only because of Pokémon. Not a metaphor. Stanford put people in brain scanners and found it.

The study was published in Nature Human Behavior in 2019. They scanned 11 adults who grew up glued to their Game Boys and 11 who never played. When they showed both groups images of the original 151, the players' brains lit up in one specific spot every time. Same spot across all 11 people. The non-players showed zero response.

That spot is a little fold in the back of your brain that normally processes things like animal shapes and cartoon faces. In the Pokémon players, a chunk of it had been permanently reassigned. Their brains carved out a Pokémon department sometime around age 6 or 7 and just never took it down.

And the reason it ended up in the same place in everyone's brain comes down to the Game Boy itself. The screen was 2.6 inches. Every kid held it at roughly the same distance. So those 151 characters hit the exact same patch of each kid's retina, thousands of times, during the years when the brain is still soft enough to reorganize itself. Where an image hits your retina in childhood is what tells your brain where to build the wiring.

Reading works the same way. Humans invented writing about 5,000 years ago. There's zero evolutionary reason for a brain region dedicated to recognizing words. But every person who learns to read grows one, roughly the size of a dime, in the same part of the brain.

Brain-imaging research from 2018 actually watched it appear in children's heads as they learned their letters. It grew by quietly taking over nearby tissue that wasn't doing much yet. Stanford published a follow-up this year showing this region is way smaller or missing entirely in kids with dyslexia, and that 8 weeks of intense reading practice physically grew it back.

London taxi drivers show the same thing in a completely different part of the brain. Brain scans from a 2000 study found the region that stores mental maps had physically expanded, and the longer they'd been driving, the bigger it got. These drivers spend 3 to 4 years memorizing 25,000 streets before they get licensed. About half wash out.

The common thread is childhood. Harvard researchers trained young monkeys to recognize new shapes and they developed brand-new brain regions in predictable locations. Adult monkeys trained on the same shapes never got those structural changes. The young brain wires itself in a way the adult brain cannot replicate.

If you're wondering whether a Pokémon patch in your brain means you lost something else, no. The region sits alongside your normal visual processing areas, not on top of them. Your brain has hundreds of millions of neurons in that zone alone. The lead author noted that every participant in the study had gone on to earn a PhD.

[Rooster @TheRooster]

When you're the worst player on the team but the boys still want to play with you

[Chief Nerd @TheChiefNerd]

🚨 Tom Holland on Why He Keeps His Distance From Hollywood

“Had I not walked away from certain situations, let's just put it at that, I would be a very different person today … I really do not like Hollywood. It is not for me. The business really scares me.”

[Spectre @spectre0799]

family ties but the beat is Billie Jean & Beat It

[Jorge @djodjeee_]

😭😭😭

[𝚋𝚊𝚗𝚡 @bankolewya]

Nigga in da whip lookin like Mickey Mouse just to smoke